1. There is no universally accepted definition of what a poem is.
2. There is no agreement on what a poem is not.
3. Prosody is the study of versification.
4. 'Versody' is not a word.
5. Versification is the art of making verses.
6. A stanza is a verse paragraph. Sometimes it is called a 'verse'.
7. A verse is made of verse, and most verse comprises verses.
8. The canon is not a weapon, and does not have balls, although it sometimes feels as though it is, and does.
9. Alfred Austin succeeded Alfred Lord Tennyson as poet laureate in 1896. He wrote a verse autobiography, The Door of Humility,
which nobody alive has read.
10. The ink used in 99.99% of poetry publications is black.
11. A list poem is usually formatted vertically and left-justified i.e. it does not list.
12. If a list poem is entered into the National Poetry Competition, it could be said to have entered the lists.
13. Writer's block is even in Wikipedia. But this is not a problem. A computer can write poems for you. Here is my latest.
14. More poets are alive than dead. They thrive.
15. More poems are dead than alive.
